Top 107 Quotes by Dick Dale

My philosophy is the thicker the wood the thicker the sound, the bigger the string the bigger the sound. My smallest string is a 14 gauge.

I live like in the days of Daniel Boone, hauling water by hand. I used to have two Rolls-Royces. Now I got one. It's got four flat tires; the trunk is open, and a rat lives inside it.

I know what it's like to wash my clothes in a Chevron station.

When I start playing I'm just a rollercoaster of sound. I don't know what's coming next, I never do, and I sit and sign and talk to the people afterwards.

You know what the doctors call me? 'The Cancer Warrior.'

Every song is like a painting.

Kids don't see me as an oldies person when I go out on stage. They see me as an energy force.

You can't eat fish. It's 6,000 parts DDT per million all over the world, not counting radiation.

I make my guitar scream with pain or pleasure or sensuality. It makes people move their feet and shake their bodies. That's what music does.

The Musicians Hall of Fame is chosen by thousands of your peers. So it's the real thing.